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International differences in interspousal health correlations
Health Economics ( IF 2.1 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 , DOI: 10.1002/hec.4253
James Banks 1 , Iris Kesternich 2 , James P Smith 3
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Using objective measures of lung function, we document strong positive associations in health within couples in all European countries but large and significant differences in this correlation within broad European regions, with Southern Europe having by far stronger correlations than elsewhere. We analyze potential explanations for such differences, investigating the role of measures capturing current and past health behaviors, early life circumstances of each spouse, and measures capturing assortative mating in multiple dimensions. We show that marital sorting patterns by dimensions of early life health and socioeconomic position, as well as by geographical subregion within countries, are key to understanding the empirical patterns observed.

中文翻译:

配偶间健康相关性的国际差异

使用肺功能的客观测量,我们记录了所有欧洲国家的夫妇在健康方面的强烈正相关,但在广泛的欧洲地区,这种相关性存在巨大而显着的差异,南欧的相关性远强于其他地方。我们分析了对这种差异的潜在解释,调查了捕捉当前和过去健康行为、每个配偶的早期生活环境的措施的作用,以及在多个维度捕捉分类交配的措施。我们表明,按早期生命健康和社会经济地位的维度以及按国家内的地理次区域划分的婚姻分类模式是理解所观察到的经验模式的关键。
更新日期:2021-04-22
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